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Hidden climate change related risks for the private sector

Brunsmeier, Annette; Groth, Markus - 2015

Climate change related risks impact and challenge the private sector in many different ways. This also applies to risk drivers like a companies' reputation and a changing consumer behavior. Since significant risk drivers for companies differ just as much as companies themselves, a sector...

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Liberalization and Private Sector Involvement in the Water Industry : A Review of the Economic Literature

Massarutto, Antonio - 2007

The theoretical and empirical literature on water supply and sewerage liberalization is reviewed in this paper in order to discuss the potential for market creation and private sector involvement in this sector. The analysis is framed in the quot;policy roadmapquot; developed by regulatory...

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The Government Shareholder : Regulating Public Ownership of Private Enterprise

Templin, Benjamin A. - 2011

.S. government became one of the largest shareholders in the world owning a portfolio of investments valued at $959 billion. Some …

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From Meerkat to Periscope : Does Intellectual Property Law Prohibit the Live Streaming of Commercial Sporting Events

Edelman, Marc - 2016

This article discusses the potential impact of live streaming on the commercial sports industry and analyzes whether commercial sports enterprises have the legal power to stop live streaming of professional and collegiate sporting events. Part I of this article explores the history of live...

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Corruption, Culture and Organizational Form

Duggar, Elena; Duggar, Madhur - 2005

This paper examines the relationship between organizational form and the potential for corruption in two polar opposite cultural settings. We build a theoretical model of a licensing bureaucracy consisting of honest and dishonest officials, and study two types of corruption - collusion, where...

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Corruption, Governance and Security : Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2005

countries, with the richer world viewed as exemplary; ii) anchored within a legalistic framework and focused on formal … separate fields. Through an empirical approach based on the analysis of the 2004 survey of enterprises by the World Economic … illegal forms of corruption continue to be prevalent in the interaction between transnationals of the rich world and the …

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Governance Redux : The Empirical Challenge

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2004

This paper is based on the governance chapter contributions to the 2003/04 Global Competitiveness Report (GCR). Building from the 2002/03 chapter contribution to the GCR, it argues that governance continues to be at a crossroad, its underperformance being evident in most regions and across many...

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Specific Counter-Crises Management Strategy for Private Sector Enterprises in Uzbekistan

Hamdamov, Omonullo - 2015

In the last two decades, private sector developed and number of businesses increased progressively in Uzbekistan, and there has been a shortage of effectively managed business crises derived from different origins. This paper analyses the current profile and structure of private sector and...

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Disclosure Incentives and Data Availability for Private Firms : Implications for Comparisons of Public and Private Firm Financial Reporting Quality

Bernard, Darren - 2016

For private firms, public disclosure of financial information is often at management's discretion. We argue that differences in incentives to publicly disclose result in differences in data availability for private firms, which in turn can affect the conclusions of studies that rely on private...

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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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